![]() One of the major new changes to the suite (on the Windows side, too) is the ability to collaborate and share your work using Web apps. Add the ease of compatibility with a strong feature set across the entire suite and you have a desktop office package that's almost a must-have in both large and small businesses, and even home productivity settings. But if you work with primarily Windows users who use Office, it's tough to beat the automatic compatibility of using the same programs. Certainly many Mac users will look first at Apple's iWork for a productivity suite, and it is a great office suite in its own right. Once we dug deep into the feature set of Office 2011 for Mac, we saw there were several enhancements that made the whole suite better, and some of the niftier tweaks are even Mac-exclusive. Not only has it nearly reached feature parity (and cross compatibility) with the Mac counterparts to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but it has finally added Outlook, the e-mail and scheduling client Mac business fans have been clamoring for for years. Though the latest package is still not on par with the Windows version (you get only the four main programs-a big difference when you consider the Windows version has 10), Microsoft made a big leap with this latest version for the Mac in several other ways. To learn more about Office for Mac, visit the Mactopia page.Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 offers a solid update to the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the other members of the productivity suite. If you need Office for Mac today, but want to get the latest and greatest when it comes out in October you can buy Office for Mac 2008 today and upgrade to Office 2011 when it is released as part of the Office for Mac Technology Guarantee program. When it comes down to the daily use of Office 2011 for Mac, the user experience will be similar to Office 2010 for PC so users who find themselves switching between Mac and PC on a regular basis may find the newest version of Office for Mac easier to use.įor a look at the new features in Office for Mac 2011 that improves on the older Office for Mac 2008, check out the video below which shows the Office for Mac 2011 Beta. Most of the commonly used features are on the main ribbon and there are multiple ribbons based on what you want to do.Ī second addition is the online template library offering many more templates and content for users to build their documents and presentations with.įinally, Outlook’s file format is improved to take advantage of OSX search functions making your Outlook content searchable from the Mac OS’s Spotlight utility. ![]() ![]() Some of the biggest changes in this new version are the addition of the Office Ribbon, a larger toolbar that replaces the Menu. Preview video of Office for Mac from Microsoft ![]()
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